Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Sara Teasdale

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes

Paul Aronsohn

I've been planning to declare my candidacy for a few weeks, and her action did not affect my decision. I hope and expect we can come together as a party and community.

Clyde Powless

I've been in direct contact with the (Ontario Provincial Police) and we're pretty well assured. . .that there will be no action taken by them.

J. Taylor

Things haven't been going very well for him. There are a number of factors. It's not the peak of his career at the moment. It's a matter of some concern, any action will apply internationally as well.

Mike Grier

As badly as it is, it's effective what he does out there. He draws penalties. He gets under the other team's skin. So I think we are all aware of how he plays the game. It's just something you have to deal with when you play against him.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Enrique Manzanilla

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Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Jennifer Capriati

Other matches against her have been like this. I've led 5-1 or 5-2 and then let it slip away. Today I just tried to stay concentrated to the end and not get negative.

Henrik Sedin

Other countries don't see us as a world contender. But back home, every tournament we play we're supposed to win. After the last Olympics and what happened against Belarus, you could feel in the locker room before the Switzerland game that if we lost we couldn't fly home this summer.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Rick Lane

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Carol Cox

We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.

Tom Daschle

OK, we'll take the first step. This is as crucial as it gets.

Tom Schatz

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Charles Grassley

Some of us in Congress wanted more family tax relief in this package than what we ultimately passed,

Mike DeWine

Many fear that our court is making policy, when it repeatedly strikes down laws passed by Congress and the state legislatures,

Rick White

Most of Congress is sort of lost in cyberspace. They know there's something called the Internet out there. But most of 'em don't know how to use it and most of 'em aren't very familiar with it.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

Lykke Li

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

Michelle Kwan

I am deeply disappointed that I will not be at nationals.

Ryan Ford

It was horrible. I did not want to leave, ... I was deeply, deeply depressed for probably six months. I felt like my life might just end. It's only recently that I'm completely over it.

Joseph Biden

It is time the president tells us how he plans on getting us out of the hole he has dug us so deeply into. And just to stop digging, as the old saying goes, is not enough. He needs to tell us what his plan is,

Terry Teachout

All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

John Mackey

Snatam Kaur is a yogini, and I find her music deeply spiritual. I feel more love and I feel more peace when I listen to her music.

Stephane Dujarric

All these pictures are deeply disturbing and we would hope they are investigated as soon as possible.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Daniel H. Pink

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Arleigh Burke

The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.

Robert Kiyosaki

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

John Toshack

The six of them did so well with us that I told Brian, 'I will keep the lot of them and send you three of the others from the squad! You can have them instead'.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

Bill Cowher

I saw the play and would not condone it. Is it illegal. No? It is necessary? I don't think so. ... Do unto others as you want others to do unto you.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Mary Lambert

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

Barbara Jordan

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Bashar al-Assad

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

Bashar al-Assad

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Benito Mussolini

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Calvin Coolidge

We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

Arthur Balfour

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

Diane Abbott

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

Bob Dole

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Charles Kennedy

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

Arundhati Roy

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.

Daniel H. Pink

The right brain is finally being taken seriously.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Colleen Haskell

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Robert Montgomery

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Robert Greene

The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.